***Sanders closing the gap in Florida***, trails 61% -32% *

[DemocratSinceBirth]

https://www.pointblankpolitical.com/2020-fl-dem-primary-poll-2/









*GOP pollster, their polls have been kind of craptastic.

[RandySF]

1. That would make him viable at least.

[VMA131Marine]

4. It's hard not to be viable when there's only two candidates

(I don’t count Tulsi Gabbard)

[George II]

8. In Mississippi he wasn't, his only two delegates (of 36) were district delegates.

[TwilightZone]

2. They're not even ranked on 538.

They did include it in their polling results, though. Interesting.

It's an opt-in text/online poll. Based on the other recent polls, looks like it's probably 5% off on each side.

[oasis]

3. Collosal landslide averted.

We won't have to hide the children.

[Thekaspervote]

5. Watch Biden once again over perform while sanders under performs

[Sloumeau]

6. Uh oh! Watch out for the Sanders Surge! :) nt

[blue-wave]

7. Wow!

That's one heck of a Bernie surge!!


Joe's gonna knock it out of the park in Florida. If Bernie breaks 30% I'll be surprised.

[George II]

9. All told, Biden will take about 2/3 of the delegates on Tuesday.

[Aquaria]

10. What a joke of a poll

An email/text poll is a terrible methodology. Reputable pollsters use a mix of cellphone/landline/online outreach to get as accurate of a read as possible, because they're more likely to reach more voters, and a more diverse spectrum of voters.

You can't build a poll around the assumption that everyone has a cellphone or internet access.

So I guarantee that this poll has under-sampled likely voters over age 65, and the A/A vote. You know, the voters most likely to favor Biden. Having to use RIM modeling, "third-party voter-file data" and other exit polls to "correct" your poll's self-admitted bias toward white, highly-educated voters only makes the poll more suspect, not less.

Yes, the poll admits that it's raw sample was biased toward white, highly-educated voters:

The weighting efficiency was primarily driven downward by the raw sample being tilted towards those with a higher education, and slightly tilted towards white voters. RIM models correct for this by appropriately weighting groups that are under or overrepresented in the sample. Population estimates for the demographics were obtained through a combination of third-party provided voter-file data and exit polls.

Mm hm. Well, if you don't name those "third-party" and exit poll sources, it's difficult to know if the bias was accounted for properly.

I downloaded their spreadsheets and will take a closer look at the full data for representative sample group percentages and the wording of their questions. They could have done a decent enough job, but that their results are so out of whack with what known reputable pollsters like UNF are finding doesn't give me confidence in this firm.